Lawrence DiRita Department Quotations

I think one of the principle lessons is that in a disaster of a certain scale, there is no other department of government that can provide the resources and the planning and the advanced thinking than this department,

There is no unit that is directly reportable to the Secretary of Defense for clandestine operations as is described in the Washington Post article. ... Further, the department is not attempting to 'bend' statutes to fit desired activities, as is suggested in this article.

The department remains in regular consultation with the relevant committees in Congress and with other agencies within the intelligence community, including the CIA.

It is accurate and should not be surprising that the Department of Defense is attempting to improve its long-standing human intelligence capability.